An inaugural gospel sing-off will headline this year’s Emancipation Vigil ceremony in Montego Bay, St James, as part of ...

The Owen Sound Emancipation Picnic and Festival, is set to go August 1st-3rd. The city was the most northerly terminus of the ...

A new feature film set to begin filming in the Triad is looking for background actors. Filming in the Triad starts on Friday and continues through August. According to Bard Background Casting, the ...

The Kennett library graciously offered to host the event after the original cancellation, and it ended up becoming a submersion in the African American culture due to the packed agenda and ...

English colonists arrived at Roanoke Island, near the coast of present-day North Carolina, to reestablish an earlier, deserted colony.

Learn about the major world events and happenings, birthdays, and deaths that took place on July 22. Check what happened today in history here.

What began as a rainy morning turned into a heartfelt celebration of freedom, heritage and unity as the Montevallo community gathered for its third annual Juneteenth celebration on Thursday, June 19.

Freedman’s Village in Arlington, Virginia The U.S. government built Freedman’s Village in June 1863 on land taken from ...

The Descendants Project will host panel sessions and an exhibit on the 1811 German Coast slave revolt, at the Woodland Plantation in Laplace ...

A scroll where Baptist ministers took an early stand against slavery has been rediscovered in Groton, Massachusetts. The document was written in 1847 and signed by 16 Baptist ministers.

Kenneth Griffin, the billionaire art collector and hedge fund founder, purchased the document that abolished slavery, as well as a copy of the Emancipation Proclamation ...